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Legal Resourcing

For 20 years, Belgrave has been working with top law firms. We have placed many heavy hitting ‘names,’ particularly in the restructuring, distressed debt and recovery market.   Knowing the real rainmakers predicates success.

The world around us is transforming – fast. With intense competition squeezing profit margins hiring must be effective. This means finding the real rainmakers who deliver the promised book. Our Rainmakery app is the only tool in the market that brings financial certainty and therefore clarity to rainmaker hiring. This ensures we cherry pick the best.

Legal Resourcing
The Rise of Legal Portfolio Careers

The Rise of Legal Portfolio Careers

Over the last 20 decades we have seen the demise of a job for life. The career demise of our time will be the full-time job. The ‘in-vogue’ way of working for lawyers will be juggling a legal career portfolio comprising various jobs, gigs, start-ups, volunteering and more.

Law firms that embrace flexi careers and virtual working are already ahead of the curve. Law firms of the future will have to keep adapting to accommodate lawyers (and clients) as they shape-shift into varied and interesting projects reflecting their skills and curiosity. This is a great opportunity for law firms. Having a more mobile workforce means you can upscale or downscale as suits, which keeps costs down. We can not only source your flexi teams but can put together a Life Purpose Benefits Package to offer to your contracting lawyers, that will keep them wedded to you.

Hiring With Impact

During the hiring process, firms factor in reputation, business book and personality but rarely consider a candidate’s working behaviour and the impact that will make to the firm. We want to ensure that partners work effectively in their new environment. this is rarely about operating in a silo. Individuals whose natural working proclivities do not fit well into a team, are unlikely to empower others or be impactful. Teams that work well together stay together – which explains why team hires tend to be more successful than solitary hires.

Our GC Index team assessment* measures a team’s natural working proclivities. It shows the preferred working behaviour needed to balance the team and be effective. This ‘marriage value’ is what creates a stand-out team that powers upwards with impact.

Hiring With Impact
Law Firms Pulling Together Effortlessly

Law Firms Pulling Together Effortlessly

The challenges ahead of our world are profound, and it is more important than ever that law firms are effective and impactful. This means understanding your firm’s working proclivities to ensure your firm is in balance and pulling together with passion.

By creating a GC Index organisation Map*, we can measure your firm’s efficiency so enabling the Executive to refine and improve the firm’s effectiveness. Small changes can make a tremendous impact to the bottom line. Simply bringing out a team’s hidden strengths or moving assistants into different teams could help drive profits up, create boundless energy as well as improve the cultural well-being of the organisation. We can also isolate thye individuals within your organisation who have the natural skills to make a game changing difference that could place you ahead of the competition.

Remote Working With Impact

COVID-19 has left law firms in unchartered waters, having to manage fragmented, virtual teams, whilst relying solely on remote working to drive business forward. As these challenges have arisen almost overnight law firms have had to source effective tools.

Understanding this new way of working will be part of our future. It requires a strategic understanding of everyone’s limitations, strengths and roles to ensure teams are effective. Impactful Remote Working powered by GC Index* can measure this. Pulling together is vital to adapt to a new alternate reality, or in fact, a constant stream of new realities. In times of exponential change, operating at the optimum level is not just a ‘nice to have’, it is essential to survive.

Remote Working With Impact
Future Proofing & Innovation Coaching

Future Proofing & Innovation Coaching

The disruption to the legal market is not a temporary ‘blip’, rather a transformatory process that will bring new winners and losers. Change is unsettling as it involves uncertainty, loss of control and the shifting of power. – we can give you control back, by strategising around it.

Future proofing and Innovation coaching (FPIC) is an empowering tool for law firms. It enables partners to take control by directly creating solutions that future proof their team which positively affects the firm. FPIC not only ensures future profit streams will keep powering forward, but the team’s future is ring-fenced. From a broader perspective, embracing an innovation mindset improves the internal culture, gives an increased sense of security, creates unique USPs that support recruitment campaigns and even encourages future investment into the firm.

About Us

Nathelie Tudberry is the founding and sole Director of Belgrave Consulting. After leaving university she worked as a solicitor in top City with top firms (now Dentons LLP and Pinsent Masons LLP) for a number of years before setting up Belgrave in 1998. She was one of the first to appreciate the merits of working without a retainer and introduced the ‘success only’ search concept into the legal headhunting market. She grew the business with a focus on maintaining niche expertise which she felt added considerable value to law firms. Although she has expertise in many markets, she has built a ‘name’ in the corporate recovery/restructuring practice area. Nathelie has also been coaching partners for many years.

About Us

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Testimonials

“I can’t speak highly enough about Nathelie; a skilled professional of complete integrity. She knows her markets extremely well, is personable and supportive and commercially astute”.

Seasoned Restructuring Lawyer and Chief Executive

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:02:32+00:00

Seasoned Restructuring Lawyer and Chief Executive

“I can’t speak highly enough about Nathelie; a skilled professional of complete integrity. She knows her markets extremely well, is personable and supportive and commercially astute”.
“Nathalie has unrivalled experience, in and knowledge of, her area of specialism, which she combines with a very clear insight into what sort of individuals would work with what sort of firms or institutions. I value her opinion very highly indeed – and have no hesitation whatsoever in endorsing and recommending her skills”.

Partner, Off Shore Law Firm

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:06:54+00:00

Partner, Off Shore Law Firm

“Nathalie has unrivalled experience, in and knowledge of, her area of specialism, which she combines with a very clear insight into what sort of individuals would work with what sort of firms or institutions. I value her opinion very highly indeed – and have no hesitation whatsoever in endorsing and recommending her skills”.
“Nathelie was of outstanding assistance in my job search. She was extremely attentive throughout my search, very knowledgeable about the market place, and a committed champion of my CV to prospective employers. Mine was not the easiest C.V. to market as I was working at a small firm without a great reputation yet, despite this and the difficult job market at the time, through her diligence and deep knowledge of the profession she was able to secure me interviews at the most prestigious mid-market firms. I cannot recommend her highly enough”.

Senior Associate, Banking & Finance Team, Silver Circle

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:08:46+00:00

Senior Associate, Banking & Finance Team, Silver Circle

“Nathelie was of outstanding assistance in my job search. She was extremely attentive throughout my search, very knowledgeable about the market place, and a committed champion of my CV to prospective employers. Mine was not the easiest C.V. to market as I was working at a small firm without a great reputation yet, despite this and the difficult job market at the time, through her diligence and deep knowledge of the profession she was able to secure me interviews at the most prestigious mid-market firms. I cannot recommend her highly enough”.
“Nathelie works effectively and enthusiastically and achieves outstanding results. She has excellent connections and is well thought of by the people she has worked for on assignments. Nathelie has been a great help to me personally both in creating a successful business plan and in sharing her very detailed knowledge and well-informed appraisals of the legal marketplace. My experience of working with Nathelie has been entirely positive. I would have no hesitation in using Nathelie myself and strongly recommend her services to others”.

Partner, Property Finance and Projects

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:09:04+00:00

Partner, Property Finance and Projects

“Nathelie works effectively and enthusiastically and achieves outstanding results. She has excellent connections and is well thought of by the people she has worked for on assignments. Nathelie has been a great help to me personally both in creating a successful business plan and in sharing her very detailed knowledge and well-informed appraisals of the legal marketplace. My experience of working with Nathelie has been entirely positive. I would have no hesitation in using Nathelie myself and strongly recommend her services to others”.
“Nathelie has a superb knowledge and understanding of the restructuring and corporate recovery market as it evolves from time to time. Her focus on the industry is a great asset”.

Partner, Corporate Recovery

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:09:19+00:00

Partner, Corporate Recovery

“Nathelie has a superb knowledge and understanding of the restructuring and corporate recovery market as it evolves from time to time. Her focus on the industry is a great asset”.
I enthusiastically endorse Nathelie Tudberry.   The hallmark of her service proposition includes a quick grasp of a client’s needs/concerns, a high degree of customization and hands-on involvement; this and more places Ms. Tudberry at the pinnacle of her profession. Her attributes are as multi-faceted as a well-cut diamond: knowledge, experience, pursuit of excellence, creativity and professional judgment are chief.  She understands the “nuts and bolts” of law firm economics, business strategy and what is needed to build a successful practice in London.  She has a near granular knowledge of the pool of qualified candidates, whom she seems to knows personally or comes to know due to her ability to engender trust and confidence.  She has keen instincts, shows persistence, decisiveness, has strong interpersonal skills, the gift of eloquence and sufficient charm/psychological savvy to entice candidates from existing positions. Finally, Ms. Tudberry will route and re-route a search to gain entrée to a different candidate pool, whilst bypassing unsuitable prospects so saving time. She is very personable making clients feel they are her sole assignment. Ms. Tudberry and I shall remain long-term friends well after her work has been completed on behalf of my firm”.

Co-Head of Bankruptcy, New York, White Shoe Firm

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:09:36+00:00

Co-Head of Bankruptcy, New York, White Shoe Firm

I enthusiastically endorse Nathelie Tudberry.   The hallmark of her service proposition includes a quick grasp of a client’s needs/concerns, a high degree of customization and hands-on involvement; this and more places Ms. Tudberry at the pinnacle of her profession. Her attributes are as multi-faceted as a well-cut diamond: knowledge, experience, pursuit of excellence, creativity and professional judgment are chief.  She understands the “nuts and bolts” of law firm economics, business strategy and what is needed to build a successful practice in London.  She has a near granular knowledge of the pool of qualified candidates, whom she seems to knows personally or comes to know due to her ability to engender trust and confidence.  She has keen instincts, shows persistence, decisiveness, has strong interpersonal skills, the gift of eloquence and sufficient charm/psychological savvy to entice candidates from existing positions. Finally, Ms. Tudberry will route and re-route a search to gain entrée to a different candidate pool, whilst bypassing unsuitable prospects so saving time. She is very personable making clients feel they are her sole assignment. Ms. Tudberry and I shall remain long-term friends well after her work has been completed on behalf of my firm”.
“I have worked with Nathelie on more than one occasion and have always found her to be extremely capable. She knows the legal market and understands her clients’ requirements. Nathelie does not waste time with unsuitable candidates. Nathelie is of high integrity and trustworthy”

Corporate Partner and Executive Board Member

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:09:49+00:00

Corporate Partner and Executive Board Member

“I have worked with Nathelie on more than one occasion and have always found her to be extremely capable. She knows the legal market and understands her clients’ requirements. Nathelie does not waste time with unsuitable candidates. Nathelie is of high integrity and trustworthy”
“I first met Nathelie in the 90’s when I was thinking of moving to London from Yorkshire. She impressed me a capable and knowledgeable, but I decided at that time not to move. I kept in touch with her and in 2005, when I was exploring changing firms, I asked her to help. I chose her because I liked her, trusted her and because, unlike many recruiters I had encountered, she knew what she was talking about in my area of legal practice. She is also a great dancer!”

Silver Circle Partner

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:10:12+00:00

Silver Circle Partner

“I first met Nathelie in the 90’s when I was thinking of moving to London from Yorkshire. She impressed me a capable and knowledgeable, but I decided at that time not to move. I kept in touch with her and in 2005, when I was exploring changing firms, I asked her to help. I chose her because I liked her, trusted her and because, unlike many recruiters I had encountered, she knew what she was talking about in my area of legal practice. She is also a great dancer!”
“I first worked with Nathelie when I myself was looking for a new role, and subsequently – at both my previous and current firms -when I was hiring senior professionals. She has a good knowledge of the market and provides constructive and helpful advice. She is also good at driving the recruitment process forward”.

Canadian Law Firm Managing Partner

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:10:24+00:00

Canadian Law Firm Managing Partner

“I first worked with Nathelie when I myself was looking for a new role, and subsequently – at both my previous and current firms -when I was hiring senior professionals. She has a good knowledge of the market and provides constructive and helpful advice. She is also good at driving the recruitment process forward”.
“Nathalie was an incredibly helpful as well as enthusiastic headhunter/recruiter who assisted me greatly in selling myself more professionally to legal firms providing really useful advice on presentation (whether in relation to CVs or personal) in particular. I always felt she was doing all she could to maximise my chances and I would recommend her strongly to other lawyers”

Property Partner

Belgrave
2019-04-12T20:10:38+00:00

Property Partner

“Nathalie was an incredibly helpful as well as enthusiastic headhunter/recruiter who assisted me greatly in selling myself more professionally to legal firms providing really useful advice on presentation (whether in relation to CVs or personal) in particular. I always felt she was doing all she could to maximise my chances and I would recommend her strongly to other lawyers”
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